# Configurable weekends for teams with non-standard weeks

_Published June 15, 2026_

**By [Eugenio Sanchez](https://mesmer.co/resources/author/eugenio)**

**Section:** Feature release

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Mesmer used to treat Saturday and Sunday as everyone's weekend. For a team
that doesn't work a Monday–Friday week — rotating shifts, a Friday/Saturday
weekend, a compressed four-day schedule — that meant real working days were
read as quiet and real days off were read as work. The calendar didn't match
the team, so neither did the read on it.

Now you can tell Mesmer which days your organization actually works. Under
**Organization Settings → Days off**, toggle any combination of Monday through
Sunday. Mesmer leaves those days out when it reasons about productivity and
activity, and the AI assistant reads the same work calendar when it interprets
your metrics.

### What you can do

- **Set any weekend.** Toggle any combination of Monday–Sunday as
  non-working — a Friday/Saturday weekend, a single rest day, or a four-day
  week.
- **Get a calendar-accurate read.** Effort and activity stop counting your
  real days off as silence, and stop reading your real working days as idle.
- **Keep the assistant in sync.** The AI assistant interprets metrics against
  the same work calendar, so its answers match the week your team actually
  keeps.

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Canonical: https://mesmer.co/resources/configurable-weekends